Saladin's Head
...Under the solar system
in our basement I sat,
copying schematics of
superheterodyne radios
from a book on electronics,
while my dad, across from me,
stood at his drawing board
illustrating ad...
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Categories:
turbaned, 4th grade, art, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Migratory Birds, to the Kingdom
...After a six-month battle with the disease and ten hours of major surgery, I have just died.
I died... while my wife wept and my son and daughter-in-law sank into their beds.
I slipped out of my bod...
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Categories:
turbaned, desire, journey,
Form: Free verse
Second Indian Wedding
...Colors of life, fertility, sanctity fly
Aromas include sweetmeats, coconut, fire
There's flowers galore, honey, spices
Not for meals only, but especially decoration
Focus now on the bride: Vermi...
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Categories:
turbaned, africa, celebration, seasons, wife,
Form: Free verse
Green Turbaned Man
...In the semi-arid suburb, Medina,
A high pitch of sound echoed.
It dopplered through misty shrubs.
A helical dawn goes tidally.
The Pathfinder: stepped,
deep nodded, starry-eyed,
Scarfed fragr...
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Categories:
turbaned, blessing, inspiration, leadership,
Form: Naat
Hey Jude From 1968 To Hey June 2020
...I
David Frost in the month of September
Before the US opening in October
(Not live, except Paul sang live throughout;
But the mixed fans will thrill; even a turbaned Sikh)
So if you fell weighed...
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Categories:
turbaned, africa, celebration, celebrity, community,
Form: Free verse
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxxi
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXI
IF you pull a long lagging-behind face
You deserve your copycat status in more than one way
Marco Polo brought back cracker-power not to powder face
Noble...
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Categories:
turbaned, anti bullying, cinco de
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sitting On the Fence At Twilight
...Sitting on the Fence at Twilight
When the sun waved good-bye in the afternoon,
I’d say hello to the smiling Man in the Moon.
Perching on our gray concrete fence,
I’d swing my brown legs...
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Categories:
turbaned, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Billabong Song Is Neither a Billboard Nor a Bull Breaking
...A transparent parrot makes a very big noise when seed arrives to visit. Mr and Mrs seed have fifteen children, eleven thousand grandchildren and one great grandchild. It is interesting to note bar le...
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Categories:
turbaned, adventure, africa, assonance,
Form: I do not know?
Three O'Clock In the Morning
...treading tales of three o clock on the morning bow
Android alkaloid met a myriad of trees at a southern angle. Bacon tart it was not for a tart is touting and touting is not touring at the correct c...
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Categories:
turbaned, anniversary, assonance, basketball, bible,
Form: I do not know?
Chameleon
...Years of worshipping the Sun God are
changing me: the beach baby I was is no
more. Sun whisperer says, Get Ready. Clear
your mind. Be one of a kind. Each day
he takes his marker out and claims ...
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Categories:
turbaned, color, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
To God It Seems As Though
...Hills pull their blankets out
and leave bare their naked spines
permitting Junes and me
to Summer there
Streams must appear to Him
as traveling caravans
The painted leaves like prisms do
wit...
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Categories:
turbaned, allusion, beauty, dream, earth,
Form: I do not know?
Bestial History Recycling
...Bestial History Recycling
by Odin Roark
School years found him library prone,
Glimpsing pages of barbaric times,
Centuries ago where death and executioners
Lived ...
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Categories:
turbaned, war,
Form: Free verse
Karagam Dance
...Hey, hey, I want to dance the *KARAGAM dance
*Hey, Sham, Manu, bring pitchers from archives
Fill the pitchers with water and uncooked rice
As rice symbolizes food that sustain our live...
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Categories:
turbaned, religious,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Pretension
...The first gardening of the year maybe is small beer
Tightening tired muscles digging the seven by nine,
These great beetroot symphonies so divine where
Rebellion rife not growing this, but ...
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Categories:
turbaned, garden, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Profiling Can Be the Best Way To Go
...Profiling Can Be the Best Way To Go
By Elton Camp
If a feeble, little old lady comes walking by
Is your reaction the same if a thug you spy?
If not, then it’s profiling in which you engaged
A prac...
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Categories:
turbaned, travel,
Form: Rhyme
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